OpenAI executives working on Stargate say that it costs about $50B to build a data center with roughly 1 GW of capacity, with $35B going toward AI chips (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI executives working on Stargate say that it costs about $50B to build a data center with roughly 1 GW of capacity, with $35B going toward AI chips  —  Sam Altman and his partners intend to get creative to cover the growing cost of data centers and chips for AI.  But first...  Three things to know: